Unfiltered stories of Black resistance, erased heroes, and hidden truths. We connect the past to today’s fights so the next generation never has to ask “why didn’t they teach us this?”
White America’s sudden fixation on Nazi Germany whenever state violence becomes visible is revealing.
When ICE raids intensified under Trump, many white Americans reached immediately for comparisons to 1930s Germany. They didn’t reach for enslavement. They didn’t reach for the Ku Klux Klan. They didn’t reach for Jim Crow. They didn’t reach for Native removal or Japanese internment.
America tends to treat decline as something that simply happens. Baldwin warned that it’s something the nation moves toward through repeated decisions.
“America will destroy itself not because of what Black Americans do but because of what white Americans refuse to do.”